1 Beng. seems to mean, that Christ from the very beginning sustained His character as the WORD OF GOD, John i. 1 — a title implying His divine nature, at the same time implying also His coming into the world, as sent by the Father, to be its Saviour. — ED.
with great force.1 — vspav'spurai, has been manifested) in the world.
27. Ka$' Sffov, inasmuch as) This expression has the force of com parison, and of giving intensity to the Apodosis. — acroxs/ra/, it is appointed, it is reserved) by Divine sanction. — «VaJ, once) The once in the following verse is to be referred to this. — a^odavsn, to die) The verb for the noun ; death and its condition. — ^tra bs roDro, and after this) Death and judgment are immediately con joined, because the intermediate state of man is uniform.2 — xpiMs, judgment) at the time when Christ shall be seen (appear) ; and comp. with this the same ver. (28), and also Matt. vii. 22, note.
28. OVTU, so) i.e. Christ hath delivered us from death and judgment, notwithstanding that, as death, so also judgment remains, as far as the name is concerned. — ^rpoffsvs^&eis sis rb aveveyxsTv, having been offered to bear) There is a difference be tween the words ; comp. 1, Pet. ii. 24, rd; a/j^apTiac avrivsyKtv, He bore our sins : Our sins were laid on Him by the Father : while therefore He was lifted up on the cross, He bore (took) up our sins along with Him. The LXX. use the same expres sion, Num. xiv. 33, avofaovai rqv Kopvtiav vfAuv, they shall bear your whoredoms. In other places they are put indiscriminately : ch. vii. 27. — ToXAwv, of many) A pleasant antithesis : once ; of many, who lived during so many ages. Isa. liii. 12, in the LXX. version, xa/ avrog a/^apria^ croX/vwv avjjvs^xg, and fie bore the sins (sin, Heb.) of many. Tims the absolute power of the one sacrifice of Christ is very clearly evinced. The word again, John xiv. 3, accords with a second time, here. Both places treat of His coining, regarded as to itself (secundum se). But His coming, for the first time in the flesh, was in the strange form of a servant : His second coming is in His own glory. In the eyes of all, who had not formerly seen, [not only so] but had
1 All the sins of all men of every age are regarded as one mass laid on Christ. /Sin is here put in the abstract, to express that He destroyed sin itself, as well as atoned for actual sins. — ED.
2 Beng, probably does not mean to deny a difference in the intermediate state of bad and good : see Gnomon on Luke xvi. 23 : but only that the term oi^y; is applied to all alike in that state. The definite separation to heaven and hell (Gehenna) is not till after the judgment. — ED.